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Mail from England: Joy and Grief in Algiers (1943)

There is more about my wife Minna in A Dane in - and out - of the ATS, Journey through the Blitz...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 07 - Battle for Singapore

I stayed with the badly wounded Simpkin while Hanton returned over the wire for help, and a few minutes...

The First Battle of Monte Cassino - January 1944

The American General Clark, who commanded the operation, had assured the men of the 5th Army that the...

The Soldier: Part Five

Realising we needed a different set of francs for money and with nothing much to do I went into a shop and...

The Soldier: Part Two

HQ stayed in the Drill Hall and the huts at the rear, A company in All Saints Church Hall, Cunningham Road...

Marching on to Laffan's Plain - Chapter 9

Immediately after the Sports Meet I set off for India, accompanied by my bearer Ahmed Din, to attend a...

A Cook's Tale

It was on one of my trips into Beirut I contracted "Sand Fly Fever", and was admitted into...

Private Stanley 'Bill' Froud, 4th Buffs 1939 - 1945

In England, the battalion returned to its base at Canterbury before moving to Rhyader, Wales, to guard the...

The Long Journey Home: A Prisoner of War in Upper Silesia

Civilians lined the road giving them bread and fruit, and the Germans allowed it as they had no means...

Mutiny in Durban 鈥� The Full Story (Part 2)

At the conclusion of this the Air Commodore commented 鈥渇air enough鈥� and an Army Officer put his...

Conflicts through Germany and Liberation of Belsen

The 11th Armoured Division Please let me tell you the story of the conflict that we, the 11th Armoured...

The Soldier: Part One

My brother and I had a car, a 1932 12 horse power Morris bought for twenty pounds, so Harry and I decided...

The Anguish of Absence: Algiers, 1943

Minna and I had endured an 18-month separation before she came to England to marry me. He offered to carry...

The Anguish of Absence: Algiers, 1943

Minna and I had endured an 18-month separation before she came to England to marry me. He offered to carry...

'Ich Habe Kranke!' (I Am Sick!)

Despite witnessing the horrors of war in France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, I found Belsen an ordeal...

Soldier's View of the Fall of Singapore 1941-2

We were also told later that the order for surrender was given because the Japanese had cut off...

'The Will To Live': Chapter 09 - The Fall of Singapore

Singapore had no previously prepared positions for defense against an attack from the mainland of Malaya,...

Lew Kemp: A Country Boy. Service with the Parachute Regiment

During training a Sgt of the Para's came looking for volunteers, 3 mates and I volunteered when they...

Tom's Story of El Alamein

Tom did more than his share Tom was wounded at the Battle of El Alamein, during 'Operation...

Shedding Light:410 Coy 5th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers ( 53.S/L Regt. RA)

Company HQ was was in Debdon Gardens Drill Hall and sites I served on or visited were Ryton, North Wylam,...

Seven Long Years in the RAMC

Royal Army Medical Corps, 30 October 1939 British Expeditionary Force: 1940鈥� Joined no.1 Casualty...

Suffolk and the D-Day Funnies: Part 2

Squadrons practiced training on rafts at Bawdsey. Butley Mills pond was used for trials of the...

Inside the War Office

I was medically graded B1, 'fit for garrison duties鈥�, was registered as 7667890 Private Scott,...

To Iceland: One Man's Experiences in 1940

On our way through Reykjavik, we passed an Icelandic lady in National costume with apron and the most...

Memories of Italy during the War

After the Africa Campaign we were transfered to the 8th Army under Monty but still kept our 1st Army flash....

A Bullet to the Chest

After initial training at the depot I went to the training battalion and then was sent to the demonstration...